Imagining is the job of the fiction writer. This is what we do, every time we sit down in front of a blank page. It seems as if we’re working with no more than a keyboard or pen and paper, but that’s not true. We have at our disposal every person we’ve ever known, every experience we’ve ever had, seen, heard and felt. Our ingredients are the people who have ignored us and caused us to search our brains for reasons why, people whom we’ve admired, both intimately and from a distance, and people whom we’ve tried to emulate. People who love us despite our faults; people we can’t stand despite our efforts to be better people ourselves.

I agree with the writer who requested this article. Daily use, perhaps better stated misuse, of the apostrophe is becoming all too common. The example of "Our kid's can read" shows that the parents can not.

Stop making failure a negative thing and start writing. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes and start creating.
And if you do mess up, do your best to&nbsp;learn from it. Trust me, you’ll be much better off.

What if&nbsp;your&nbsp;first book was&nbsp;sold to&nbsp;a publisher quickly, but then each of your next 5 books were turned down?
That exact scenario happened to none other than, Danielle Steel, currently the best selling author alive and the fourth bestselling author of all time.

Having a day job makes it imperative that I allocate&nbsp;time for writing. I insure I write at least 2 hours before I go to work come rain or shine. And I do this by following my rituals every morning without fail.

Regardless of what time I work (shift work), I wake up at least 3 hours prior and like clockwork, 1) I brush my teeth, 2) make breakfast, 3) sit down at my desk, 4) check emails, 5) check in on my social connections and finally 5)&nbsp;after stretching my legs for a moment,&nbsp;I write on cue for at least&nbsp;two hours.

While visualizing your story may seem like the right way to approach writing, it turns out that for full-time writers, the brain performs a bit differently. When Dr. Lotze watched writers from a competitive creative writing program perform the same tests, he found that experienced writers, while brainstorming, used parts of their brains associated with speech instead of vision.

The important part of the finding is that writing is a skill that one can master over time. While I agree with Stephen King in the sense that great writers can not be created, I also agree that anyone can become a decent writer.